Conquer Club

--------- Happy Columbus Day 2024 A.D. ...
---------One of the Greatest Explorers the World has ever known...He did not discover America (The New World)...But he did prove, to those scared/believed the World was flat, if you sailed to far, you would fall off into nothingness ... THAT THE WORLD IS ROUND... 532 years ago... ...In 1492 A.D. Christopher Columbus sailed The Ocean Blue... ...
----------- Happy Canadian Thanksgiving ...
-------------Have fun , enjoy the day...The U.S. will catch up next month... ... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

Actually, Columbus' Greatness stems not from being the first on the American continents. Of course, Amerindians, Norsemen, maybe a few Polynesians had all arrived there earlier.

Nor did he really add much to the already widely known or suspected idea that the Earth is a near-sphere. Many astronomers and navigators already had much evidence and observation in that regard.

But what really makes him great, is that more than any other single man or woman, Columbus got Modern Globalism off to a running start. The great interchange of foodstuffs and other biological and non-biological resources between the continents really took off at that point. International Trade expanded immensely in range, diversity, and distance. The New World to Old World arrival of tomatoes, potatoes, chili peppers, maize, avocados, chocolate, tobacco, etc is often mentioned, but an even larger variety of new resources were introduced from the Old World to New World. The discovery of immense continent-sized tracts of land also gave needed space and distance for a vast array of social, religious, cultural, commercial, (and later industrial) experimentation that would bring about new forms of government, business, and technology.

Did massive (and ultimately inevitable) change ruffle a few feathers along the way. Of course, but that old metaphor of omelets and broken eggshells explains all in the end...
For in the long run, progress and innovation are unstoppable forces, and overall, the benefits have far outweighed the drawbacks, at least for the spritely and forward-thinking who were and still are capable of following along to with the complex andever-varying steps of the dance known as human history.

Indeed, anyone who has ever boarded a jet, ordered from a foreign vendor on ebay, or enjoyed a spicy Thai curry, is by act, even if not by word, a robust supporter of Columbus and all that he brought about. So let's have no more brainless, racist-luddite, ignorantly-romanticized, leftist-woke-snowflake hypocritical delusions.
Three Cheers for Columbus and the Modern World We All Live In!

More misinformation than the average Trump rant, and in fewer words.

-------I said The known thinking...Basic people, Most Europeans... Farmers, the poor, Believed the World was FLAT.....The Vikings, call them Vikings, don't be scared...They were plunderers...Not explorers...So , average Europeans were scared of them...So , they wouldn't of talked to them...Hey, How was your trip to Canada???....
--------- Not counting those who took the land bridge over the Bering Strait... Columbus actually planned a Voyage West to prove the World wasn't Flat...Hit America, thinking he made India...He went in search of a sea route to China,etc...Because the silk road was becoming dangerous to travel EAST....
--------- Vol...You speak of 2 groups + Vikings...Like the Europeans of Columbus' Day... Unknown facts, like the World is Round to average Europeans..... Unknown fact to you..... Chinese Admiral, Explorer ZHENG HE...made it to the Now United States (America) Pacific Coast in 1421 A.D...you can add him to your list...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... ... Spain was the World power(As far as Europe goes), Columbus was made famous, because of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, backing his Exploration...For a sea route to China, THE FAR EAST..., Like Magellan's gets credit for going around the world, he died...Sir Francis Drake did it alive...Zheng He, not all at once, but he went this way,that way, over time for The Emperor's Court...Put all his trips together, he did it...